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Thy Art Is Murder is an Australian deathcore band from Blacktown, Sydney that formed in 2006. The band has released six studio albums since formation. Their 2008 EP Infinite Death, reached position no. 10 on the AIR Charts upon release and their second full-length album Hate debuted at no. 35 on the ARIA Charts, making them the first extreme metal band to ever reach the Top 40 of this chart.

The album also reached no. 1 on AIR and both no. 2 and no. 4 respectively on the US and Canadian iTunes metal charts on its week of release. The following albums Holy War (June 2015) and Dear Desolation (August 2017) charted on US Billboard 200.  Human Target was released in July 2019. Their most recent album, Godlike was released in September 2023.  

Thy Art is Murder are noted for being one of the most prominent Australian deathcore artists. 

Themes often cover dystopian savagery, violence and strife. The band's album, Hate, expresses dislike of organized religion. The band's third full-length album, Holy War, discusses a range of themes, from their anti-religion and anti-extremism, to animal rights, war, and greed.

The 2023 album Godlike shows the band increasing their blackened death metal quotient.  Privatised prisons enforce police states, where nonviolent offenders languish for decades. Pharmaceuticals numb the mind. Social media distracts the spirit.  All while the very planet lurches toward an inevitable climate disaster that will extinguish humanity. The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting.  Against this backdrop of postmodern dystopia, chaos, and confusion,  THY ART IS MURDER exorcise the pangs of mortality and the pains of socio-political trauma. They are influenced by Decapitated, Gojira, Meshuggah and Behemoth and have frequently cited Behemoth as a major influence on their style.  

THY ART IS MURDER rails against the anti-intellectualism and fear of mortality, at the heart of the worst of public policy, the role of social media in the mental health epidemic, a surveillance state, for-profit-prisons, and the religion of addiction from pharma, to smart phones.   Australia’s most brutally alarming cultural export since George Miller’s Mad Max franchise makes music that serves as a loud last gasp against the ever-encroaching void. A blazing light of nihilistic despondency before the final darkness. Fusing authentic crushing death metal with blackened fury and flashes of knuckle-dragging stomp.  A fresh generation of extreme music acolytes and longstanding death metal fans alike enthusiastically endorse the unrelenting aggression and increasing lyrical depth of THY ART IS MURDER whose videos have accumulated over 50 million views.

THY ART IS MURDER  are a reinvigoration and redefinition of a thriving subculture that has earned them a place in the Top 50 Most Popular Metal Bands (based on worldwide page views) and that puts among Metallica, Slipknot, Slayer, Megadeth, Ghost, and Iron Maiden.  A thinking-person’s blackened death metal has challenged and inspired audiences around the globe, and won them placement on top-tier genre festivals Download, Graspop, Hellfest, Nova Rock, Rock Im Park, Sweden Rock and Summer Breeze; and on high-profile tours supporting Killswitch Engage, Parkway Drive, Architects and Slayer as part of Rockstar Mayhem; and headline tour after headline tour across the globe. While in their native country, they’ve charted higher than any other homegrown extreme metal band. 

Guitarist Andy Marsh has said that "We are big fans of music that can evoke a feeling and mood, but often that music isn't very in your face and heavy. Behemoth are amazing at capturing that synergy in just the right way and it is that ethos that inspires us."

If this is truly the end of humanity, it’s music that should unite and empower extreme metal fans in all corners of the genre. This is underground music for the people, carrying the torch for a primal style that doesn’t die. As New Noise declared, “few embrace the feel of the apocalypse so dearly and expertly… THY ART IS MURDER is clearly at the head of the modern death metal pack and they are just getting better.”